Friday Links (9 May 08)
Friday, May 9, 2008by Geoff Young
Don't know how we ended up with so many of these, but here they are:
Padres can't pin hitting woes on Petco (ESPN, h/t parlo). Quoth Khalil Greene:
I'm not going to consistently say it, but the ballpark plays a major factor in it -- more than anybody lets on at times. That's the reality of it. You don't want to make excuses and say, "I would have done this if the ballpark was a different size." But as a hitter, if you hit a ball 380 feet the other way and it's a fly out, that's hard to overcome.
If anyone has a right to complain, it's Greene (see pp. 26, 27, and 55 ...
